As for Burton, recruiting the similarly coiffed Smith for soundtrack work has been a decades-long endeavor. Roger O’Donnell, who served as the Cure’s keyboardist for two different stints between 1987 and 2005, recently recalled the director’s first approach during the 1988-’89 recording sessions for Disintegration.

“Another thing I remember but I don’t know how widely known this is was that Tim Burton had asked Robert for the Cure to do the soundtrack to ‘Edward Scissorhands’ and the script was lying around the studio. I don’t know why we didn’t or what happened, I don’t think we knew who he was at the time.”

Now that Smith has contributed music to a Burton film, it’s unclear whether there’s any significance at all to the fact that it’s credited as Robert Smith rather than the Cure. It could just be a record company conflict, although it’s believed that Universal Music dropped the Cure last summer. Yet with so much archival material on tap this year — Disintegration, “The Cure in Orange,” Mixed Up 2 — it’s good to see new music on the horizon, even if it’s just a Disney cover tune.

See full ‘Alice’ tracklist and the original ‘Very Good Advice’ after the jump…

Tracklist: Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” soundtrack

1. “Alice (Underground)” performed by Avril Lavigne
2. “The Poison” performed by The All-American Rejects
3. “The Technicolor Phase” performed by Owl City
4. “Her Name Is Alice” performed by Shinedown
5. “Painting Flowers” performed by All Time Low
6. “Where’s My Angel” performed by Metro Station
7. “Strange” performed by Tokio Hotel and Kerli
8. “Follow Me Down” performed by 3OH!3 featuring Neon Hitch
9. “Very Good Advice” performed by Robert Smith
10. “In Transit” performed by Mark Hoppus with Pete Wentz
11. “Welcome to Mystery” performed by Plain White T’s
12. “Tea Party” performed by Kerli
13. “The Lobster Quadrille” performed by Franz Ferdinand
14. “Running Out of Time” performed by Motion City Soundtrack
15. “Fell Down a Hole” performed by Wolfmother
16. “White Rabbit” performed by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals